South Side home destroyed in fire

Published 7:08 pm, Saturday, August 25, 2012

No one was injured Saturday afternoon in a South Side fire that destroyed a family's rental home.

Battalion Chief Russell Johnson said flames were coming out of the roof and front windows of the Bonnell Drive home when firefighters arrived just before 5 p.m.

The flames also threatened the next-door neighbor's property, coming within inches of latticework lined with vines. Russell said the fire caused some minor heat damage to that house.

No one was home when the fire started and investigators were still trying to contact the family after they put out the fire. Neighbors told firefighters the family that lives there recently had some electrical problems when a tree in the back yard fell on a power line, Johnson said.

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The home was judged a complete loss, with damage estimated at $65,000. The cause is under investigation.